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R.L.’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at R.L.’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
R.L. Maizes’s Followers (239)
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R.L. Maizes
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August 2012
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Other People's Pets
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2020
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We Love Anderson Cooper
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A Complete Fiction
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A Cat Called Grievous
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Tattoo
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Starred Review from Shelf Awareness
"Strike up the band: there's a new R.L. Maizes (We Love Anderson Cooper; Other People's Pets) book, and it's breakout-novel time--or at least it should be. As a funny-pitiless look at the lengths writers will go to get published, A Complete Fiction deserves shelf space alongside Percival Everett's Erasure and Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Plot." Shelf Awareness gives A Complete Fiction a starred revie
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"This feels uncomfortably close to the bone in a way that’s hard to shake off. Not because it’s shocking, but because it recognises something many of us would rather not admit—how quickly we form opinions, take sides, and move on without ever really k"
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"This novel was a complete joy to read -I couldn’t put it down. Maizes is a writer’s writer which means she’s operating at the top of her craft. Great character, swift and twisty storylines, this book has got everything a smart reader could possibly w"
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Topics Mentioning This Author
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| Crazy Challenge C...: The Year in Astrology | 386 | 184 | Jul 09, 2020 08:45PM | |
| Busy as a Bee Books: Book News: 07/14/20 | 6 | 11 | Jul 22, 2020 06:06AM | |
| Crazy Challenge C...: 2019 Fall Seasonal Challenge | 108 | 95 | Jan 26, 2021 01:05PM | |
| Crazy Challenge C...: Hurricanes | 583 | 163 | Feb 13, 2025 03:46PM | |
| Edelweiss & Netga...: * 2025 Book Reviews | 759 | 61 | Dec 31, 2025 03:50PM |
“Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another; rather, it teaches us to abide with the fact that, in their own way, all things are true, and helps us, in the face of this terrifying knowledge, continually push ourselves in the direction of Open the Hell Up.”
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“A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart.”
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“A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.”
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“The main effort of arranging your life should be to progressively reduce the amount of time required to decently maintain yourself so that you can have all the time you want for reading.”
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“Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to.”
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